Him and their stars

Dr. Xie’s so-called “abnormal situation” refers to more than half a year ago. What he encountered when he was sent to an agricultural production ship in the center of the galaxy to be responsible for repairing transportation channels - as we all know, the center of the galaxy is not short of minerals or sunlight, but it lacks serious Earth-like planets, and the star structure of most galaxies is not very good. Stablize. Therefore, vegetable growing and animal husbandry can only be carried out on boats. In this way, materials and production can be allocated in a unified manner, and you can run away from any star that goes crazy.

This is the so-called nomad in the stellar sense.

But even so, the predators still have a huge gap in their food production. What's more, as the core of the predators, such as the Ero people, Myshandar and Beato people, they are also strong warrior races and need nutritious food to survive.

There is really no other way. Of course, the only way to survive is to plunder the civilized countries outside the galactic center every year. The people they captured within the Galactic Center were not only used as slaves and cannon fodder, but were actually used as emergency rations.

Of course, technical talents like Dr. Xie Yiwei, although they are slaves, are still treated well. It is estimated that even if the soldiers starve to death, it is impossible for him to starve to death.

Let’s talk about the agricultural production ship that Dr. Xie was sent there. This kind of ship was created by the Eero people when they had a huge empire. The hull is very large, the same size as a giant hyperspace freighter. It's not so much a ship as it is a kind of space city that can move slowly. There is a complete set of small ecological circulation systems on the ship. As long as there is sufficient sunlight and energy, as well as certain manual maintenance, it can continue to operate for a long time.

This ship originally had 100,000 heads of various livestock on board. A considerable amount of high-quality meat can be provided to the leaders, technicians and death warriors of this predator army.

To the Aero people, this agricultural production ship and the livestock on it are even more valuable products than the main battleship.

However, while Dr. Xie was working on the agricultural ship, one day, the new Great Khan came to the ship for an inspection.

This kind of thing originally had nothing to do with Dr. Xie, a slave. The doctor had no idea what the Great Khan looked like, how old he was, or who his entourage was. But he only knew that after the Khan left, those livestock and the 100,000 livestock on the ship disappeared overnight.

The captain was also the director of the ranch on the ship. It was as if his soul had been extracted. He was mechanically wandering around like a zombie all day long, as if the missing livestock were his lifeblood.

Until later, the Great Khan transported more than a thousand young animals from nowhere, and the captain did not come back to his senses.

Dr. Xie also watched the captain being distracted all day long, so he found an opportunity to sneak into his office, and implanted a backdoor program into a medium-sized cargo ship through the captain's terminal. Only then did he find a chance to escape.

Of course, this is a story for another day.

Those 100,000 large and small livestock, many of which were as big as elephants, all disappeared overnight. This is the strange thing Dr. Xie is going to tell.

"I don't know what this means, but it is indeed very strange." The doctor said, "I don't know, will this help you?"

Admiral Selerius nodded noncommittally: "Thank you very much for your help. I hope you can maintain your health. The empire is still waiting for your wisdom to return to work."

The doctor gave a wry smile with a face filled with vicissitudes of life, and terminated the communication.

"He didn't lie." Brigadier General Kesore, the security director, said. He is a "Holy Servant" and a psyker with the fourth ring of "Spirit Empowerment". He is an expert in the fields of mental attack and defense and spiritual perception, and is also an expert in lie detection. Although the call was over a hundred million kilometers away, Dr. Xie was an ordinary person after all, so it was certainly impossible for him to lie in front of a psychic.

Admiral Celerius was lost in thought. He remembered the "disappearance of three officers" that first occurred in the fortress. Isn't it similar to the disappearance of 100,000 livestock there?

Although the size gap between the two is indeed too large.

"Do you want to ask for help from the country?" Brigadier General Kesore asked.

Admiral Celerius couldn't help but glance at the latter. Asking for help from the country would mean admitting defeat, and for a psyker and an astral knight, it would be a shame.

"The existing technological means have found nothing, which shows that the opponent must be a psyker with outstanding latent ability." Brigadier General Kesore said.

"Didn't your occult methods yield nothing?"

During these three days of large-scale searches, Brigadier General Kesore, as the security director, was certainly not idle. He and the ten psykers stationed in the fortress also searched the mountains and seas, using almost all means, and almost lost their strength from exhaustion, but they also only caught a lonely person.

"Yes, this further proves that at least the opponent's lurking methods are better than ours." The security director's words seemed to have some logical problems, but Admiral Selerius was too lazy to complain.

"Unfortunately, Your Excellency, I am indeed incompetent, so I can only ask for domestic support. It doesn't matter if I am embarrassed, but if it endangers the national defense and security of the empire, I will be responsible for my death." Brigadier General Kesore expressed his determination righteously. , and then sighed heavily: "If Count Seriola was in the fortress, we would have found the enemy long ago."

Count Seliora is dead! Admiral Selerius wanted to say this, but this shocking news was still only at the highest decision-making level of the empire. Only he and the chief of staff knew about it in the entire fortress, so he could only remain silent about it.

What an eventful time! Why is there so much trouble in the empire recently? Could it be that...as someone said, the brilliance of the morning light will always fade one day?

Admiral Selerius quickly put these random thoughts behind his mind and prepared to send a request for support to Tianyu. He estimated that the reinforcements would not arrive too late, because there was a group of judges on the Sarna planet, and it was said that the chief investigating judge, Xun Feng, was also there. These people are experts in investigating paranormal situations, and of course they can prescribe the right medicine to deal with hauntings.

However, when the veteran returned to his office and had just connected to the internal communication of the Generalissimo's Mansion, the adjutant rushed in before he could speak.

"Your Excellency, the enemy situation!"

"During this period, the enemy situation has been constant every day." The general said angrily. He now does not admit the so-called "haunting", but declares that there is a mole in the fortress.

"It's the looters, they're coming!" the adjutant shouted.

Admiral Selerius was slightly startled, but for some reason, he breathed a sigh of relief. Compared to invisible enemies such as "haunters", he has seen more visible enemies and is no longer afraid of them.

When the old general returned to the fortress headquarters, the intelligence staff handed over the intelligence fed back by the deep space exploration stations.

"A total of 30 individuals? The total mass exceeds 2 million tons? This is a small ship fleet. Wait, when did the load-bearing mass of No. 3 gravity well expand to exceed 2 million tons? Why not report it!"

"It started to expand after 18:12 last night. It reached the limit at 4:47 in the morning." The intelligence staff replied: "According to the readings, there is now a certain degree of collapse. Logically speaking, it should It will start to close within half an hour.”

Admiral Celerius nodded. This was a normal manifestation of the unstable gravity well leading to the center of the galaxy. It was not the fault of his subordinates. He asked about the defense situation again and learned that the drone turret array had been deployed and the patrol fleet was also heading towards the enemy fleet. He rushed in the direction of the jump and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let the soldiers at the Deep Space Observation Post retreat." the veteran ordered.

In his opinion, this should be an ordinary small-scale predator attack, or an act of suicide. He has served in the Lion's Den Fortress for more than ten years and encounters this situation almost every month.

…If it weren’t for the previous haunting incident, he would definitely have thought so.

"Send a report to Lieutenant General Omoti and ask him to lead the Tireluo Yongjin to return to the Lion's Den Fortress immediately." The admiral added.

The main garrison fleet of the Lion's Den Fortress is the border strike fleet with the Titan ship Tireroan Valor as its flagship and strategic core. It is commanded by Lieutenant General Omoti, the deputy commander of the fortress and fleet admiral.

Of course, it is said to be the Lion's Den Garrison Fleet, but in fact the entire Jijiang Star Region is their defense zone and requires daily combat readiness patrols. No, didn't I just happen to pass by Sarna two days ago and kill a giant bug as big as a planet?

Soon, Admiral Selerius received the news that the Valiant was on its way back to the fortress, but there was still one day of voyage left.

At this time, before the personnel stationed at the deep space observation post evacuated, the last message was sent.

"The passage of the gravity well has opened and closed again? And it is still expanding?"

The admiral couldn't help but look at the intelligence staff officer who had just vowed, but the other person quickly stepped back and tried to hide himself in the crowd and pretend to be a dog.

"The number of individuals is 4, and the total mass exceeds 2.5 million tons. It is an arsenal ship!" The adjutant read out the following report parameters.

"Your Excellency, this..."

"Let the entire fortress enter the first combat readiness state!" Admiral Selerius issued such an order immediately and decisively.

His order was certainly correct. In fact, the No. 3 gravity well, which had been opening and closing, had expanded tenfold in half an hour, just as it had happened eighteen years ago.

"Then, over there is the haunted place..."

"All fortress defense soldiers and robots continue to maintain the highest patrol alert!"

In just twenty minutes, almost all the soldiers had entered their combat readiness positions, and the No. 3 gravity well also expanded nearly 30 times in such a short period of time. At this time, not only the deep space observation station, but also the fortress's own detectors had detected dense signals from warships, as many as hundreds.

And this should be just the vanguard of the predators.